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WHY IS IT DIFFICULT TO STOP
SMOKING ?

I bet you have asked yourself this question again and again. Every smoker has.

We know it is bad for us; we KNOW it is KILLING us and yet..... we continue to do it.

And to make things worse......every time, we try to stop, we seem to WANT it more and more.

Even all the health scares don't affect us.

From new statistics, we now know that over 50% of all regular smokers will die from smoking-related diseases.

And when you look even closer at the truth of the matter, it is even more incredible......

Everyday, we are in fact using our own money to systematically destroy our own body - to turn our health living cells into dying cancerous-ridden ones - and we are so persistent in doing it - every day, every hour we are on the job.

When we look at it this way, we all know that smoking is 'surely the stupidest thing in the world'.

And yet we all continue to do it.

I continued to smoke even though I knew all the above - in fact I even watched my grandfather die of smoking-related cancer, but I still kept smoking for years afterwards.

THE PARADOX

In fact, in a strange way, such incidents probably make it harder to give up.

I was a teenager when my grandfather died.

I had only been smoking a little while when I heard my parents say that he knew he was dying from cancer but still he wouldn't give up smoking.

Although I wasn't aware of it at the time, I drew two very damaging conclusions from my grandfather's decision.

One, I concluded -- that either cigarette must indeed be very enjoyable: Why one someone keep doing it even though it was killing him? (I did not know of the addictive nature of the drug - nicotine at that stage. I was only 11)

Or else: It must be impossible to give up smoking once you start. Otherwise, surely he would have stopped?

The Puzzle

The truth is.....most of us will not admit to the real reason why we will not stop smoking.

Some of us say it is because of the withdrawal symptoms we will have to face if we give up.

We dread them because of the terrible scarce stories we have heard from people who have tried to give up.

Or from our own memories, when we tried to quit and failed.

This fear is also re-enforced by our culture which bombards us with images and beliefs which seem to to emphasize one sole message:

When you give up, you'll face terrible withdrawal pains. Your body will scream for mercy - for nicotine. You will be miserable, angry - even violent until you beat this nicotine monster.

RUBBISH! RUBBISH !
IF you only get one thing from this course, please realize this: All the above horror stories are false.

The actual PHYSICAL withdrawal symptoms from nicotine are so MILD most people will not even notice them!

And for those that do, it will be less than the slight discomfort you would feel from a light head cold!

Yes, you will FEEL something when you stop smoking, but the feelings of emptiness, frustration and anxiety that you WILL feel when you give up smoking do not come from the nicotine addiction, but from the mental conditioning that you have associated with smoking.
THEY ARE CAUSED BY YOUR REACTION TO THE FACT THAT WE CAN'T SMOKE.

This is such an important point.

There is no PHYSICAL pain when you give up smoking.

You will experience no physical agony when you decide to stop.

When you fully understand this you will look forward to that day that you will smoke that final cigarette and become a non-smoker for life.

Can you accept this truth ? Don't worry at this stage if you can't - we will be devoting all Lesson 3 to this vital aspect of giving up.

At this point, just accept it as a working but very exciting possibility!

Drop all your old thinking -open your mind to new exciting possibilities

So if it's not fear of withdrawal symptoms, what then really keeps us hooked to smoking ?

Some of us believe that it is enjoyable ?

Others believe that it gives a person confidence and a sense of courage.

Another great myth is the belief that smoking relieves boredom.

This is absolutely nonsense as boredom is a state of mind and must be dealt with from that level.

Weight Gain .....and smoking
Any increasingly disturbing trend is the belief that smoking can be used as a slimming aid.

This is based on the belief that if you give up smoking you are BOUND to gain weight.

This is not true.

If you adapt this new psychology of non-smoking, you need not fear gaining weight.

Yes, it may have happened in the past when people tried to give up smoking through Will-Power ALONE.

To give up smoking, these people were told to use all their willpower and try to take their mind off their 'desire to smoke and 'do' something else- ANYTHING.

They were told to eat snacks or nibble this or that - ANYTHING to keep them busy and their minds off smoking.

Why did they want to eat?

Because the 'feeling' or the 'hunger' for a cigarette is very similar to the 'feeling' you get when you are hungry.

And so, in the past. people ATE in the mistaken BELIEF that by eating, they could satisfy this feeling for a cigarette and that it would help them keep their minds off smoking.

But of course, it didn't work and the MORE the feeling to smoke came back........ the MORE they ate in the mistaken belief it could help them.

That is the historical origin of this belief.

I am always amazed by how many people are still convinced that weight gain is an absolute by-product of giving up smoking as if you can't have one without the other.

Yes, I accept there was some validity for it in the past.

But the CAUSE was not giving up smoking but HOW they went about the process.

We are going to deal specifically with this issue throughout the course -- so beware of any tendency to continue to want to smoke out of fear of gaining weight.